Fairies

Fairies

Fairies in The Sims 3 Supernatural are human-sized Sims with glittery wings. They possess magic just like Witches do, but it's a different type of magic. Fairies use Auras and Tricks: Auras allow the Fairy to influence other Sims to support their general efforts in life, making Fairies fantastic for families. Tricks are social commands that generally increase relationship scores unless the target has the No Sense of Humor trait.

Although Fairy Tricks are fun, they're just another avenue to increasing relationships. However, Fairy Auras are game-changers. Read the Auras and Tricks section for more details.

Fairy Houses

Fairies have all the standard need bars and actions, and therefore can live life as normal. However, you can save a bunch of money by buying a Fairy House. These are available in Buy Mode in the Comfort sort and Miscellaneous subsort.

There are two Fairy Houses for sale: the Fairy Bungalow for $475, and the Fairy Castle for $625. Each has the same function: to serve as nearly a full, functional home that only fairies can access.

After buying a Fairy House, simply put it anywhere outside. Any fairy can then activate it and use a host of commands. Fairies can eat, sleep, party, or even Woo Hoo in the Fairy House! If your family is comprised only of Fairies, you can sell your bed, fridge, and entertainment objects, as the Fairy House will cover your needs. Of course, you'll want some normal objects so you can host non-fairy guests, but you can rely on the Fairy House alone for those couple weeks when budgets are really tight for a Generation-1 family.

Note that Fairy Houses feed fairies with fruit juice, which doesn't cost any money in ingredients. However, well-cooked meals will satisfy a fairy's hunger meter better than any fruit juice.

When under Free Will, fairies will always prefer sleeping in a Fairy House over a bed, even their own bed. This isn't much of a problem unless you want your fairy to Woo Hoo with a non-fairy, though it could make for some cold-appearing marriages (or married life according to 1950s television!). Of course, you can always override a fairy's tendencies by giving the order to have your fairy sleep wherever you want her to.

Becoming a Fairy

Fairies can be created outright in Create A Sim, but human Sims can be converted to fairies if they're not already a different Supernatural race.

The path to becoming a fairy is actually incredibly easy, just time consuming. The first step is to actually know a fairy. If you don't know any, head to the Fae Ray Arboretum in Moonlight Falls. (You can also place an Arboretum lot in an established neighborhood.) Send your Sim to the Arboretum, then interact with the central building and choose "Search for Fairies." This leads to a series of three pop-up boxes that each give you two choices. Like the old "Chance Cards" from The Sims 1 and The Sims 2, there is no "right" answer here: it basically comes down to a series of coin flips.

If you get lucky, a fairy will spawn and immediately become your friend. Increase the relationship through any means necessary, and you'll eventually be able to ask the fairy if she'll convert you. If she chooses to do so, you'll instantly convert and begin at Level 1 for Auras and Tricks.

Developing Magical Abilities

Unlike most facets of The Sims 3, magic is not a job skill. You'll never properly know how far along you are in studying fairy Auras and Tricks, but you'll always gain new abilities in the same order. You can read more about what specific spells do on the Auras and Tricks page.

It's much easier to gain fairy abilities than magical Spells for Witches. The technique is the same: expend magic that you know to learn new spells. However, because Fairies can constantly expend magic through their auras, they can constantly be gaining magical experience without actually doing anything. After all, a fairy can activate an aura while continuing to go through life, unlike Witches, who have to actually expend their magic with active actions.

Other Fairy Notes

Fairies take an automatic debuff during all new moon days, all day. Conversely, their Auras and Tricks take less mana to cast during full moons.

Like with Witches, mana bars will recover slowly as long as they're not completely depleted. If the bar is completely depleted, you'll draw a debuff and the mana bar will not recover until six hours pass, at which point the bar will instantly fill.

Fairies inherently have the ability to "fly," though it's more of a gentle hover. It allows fairies to move slightly faster than walking, but that's the limit: it won't let the fairy fly around town or take the place of a car.